Many EFI Updates Prepped For Linux 4.7 Kernel

[unixfan2001]

Why would anyone want EFI on their devices?

Secure boot. Better support for larger harddrives. Faster hardware initialisation. Fancy GUIs.

[caligula]

Why would anyone want EFI on their devices?

[AdamOne]

Will it turn UEFI off?????

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Many EFI Updates Prepped For Linux 4.7 Kernel

Matt Fleming at Intel sent out the set of patches he intends to submit as the queue of EFI changes for what will become the Linux 4.7 kernel. He noted of this queue, "this is probably the biggest EFI pull ever sent, and there quite a few different topics covered."..

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